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Who's Been Reading Our Journals?

Every so often, our friends at Johns Hopkins University Press provide us with a report showing how often articles from Theatre Journal and Theatre Topics are downloaded via Project MUSE. We found the latest figures – covering the calendar years 2012 and 2013 – interesting, and we thought you might, too.

Over the last two years, ATHE’s journals have been accessed more than a quarter million times, by users in 100 countries, including Vatican City.

As further demonstration of ATHE’s international reach, six of the ten institutions with the most article downloads from our journals are located outside the US:

CUNY Grad School & University Center

Queensland University of Technology

University of Toronto

University of Texas at Austin

New York University

Northwestern University

Queen Mary, University of London

University of British Columbia

University of Surrey

York University

All told, users at over 2000 institutions downloaded at least one article from Theatre Journal or Theatre Topics via Project MUSE. These institutional subscribers (i.e. libraries) include the University of Zagreb, the University of Ghana, the Islamabad Medical and Dental College, Nacogdoches High School, and the US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Library.

Over 300 articles – nearly all that we’ve published in the last few years – were downloaded 200 or more times. The most downloaded articles since January 1, 2012 are:

Theatre Journal

“Gender Trouble in Twelfth Night” by Casey Charles

“How to Do Things with Demons: Conjuring Performatives in Doctor Faustus” by Andrew Sofer

“How to Tell a True War Story: The Dramaturgy and Staging of Narrative Theatre” by Jill Taft-Kaufman

Each of the articles in these two lists was downloaded at least 500 times over the past two years. We congratulate the authors, as well as all our journal editors, board members, staff, and contributors for their role in carrying out ATHE’s mission to support and advance the study and practice of theatre and performance in higher education.

And if you’d like your work to be read by scholars and practitioners around the world, please consider submitting to Theatre Journal or Theatre Topics. Submission guidelines are available on the JHUP website (click the journal title to visit the submission guidelines pages).